Ollaman Qwen 3.6 and OpenCode

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You got me fired up again about self hosted llms for coding @skalyan .

I have a GTS 970 in a machine with 32G of RAM. I installed Ubuntu 24.04 and ollama. I had to fiddle with ollama a bit to get it listening on 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1.

I then tried opencode on another machine. I had a chat with copilot about which environment variables to set to tell opencode to connect to my ollama instance.

I asked it a question about some code of mine, and btop seemed to confirm that i was putting a load on the GPU in that machine, but it didn’t get into a back and forth that yielded a result.

Did i misunderstand your roadmap? Last night i installed qwen code, but when you said opencode i assumed that was the better way to go.

How has my journey lined up with yours?

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Curious about this workflow too! I found a MLX version of Qwen 3.6 and gave it a brief spin on the M4 MBA but also want to get one of the Linux workstations going at some stage to try this out properly.

Will point out here that nvtop is also fantastic for monitoring what an Nvidia GPU is doing.